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SModelS User Manual
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**These pages constitute the SModelS manual.**

SModelS is an automatic, public tool for interpreting simplified-model results from the LHC.
It is based on a general procedure to decompose Beyond the Standard Model
(BSM) collider signatures into Simplified Model
Spectrum (SMS) topologies. Our method provides a way to cast BSM predictions
for the LHC in a model independent framework, which can be directly confronted
with the relevant experimental constraints. The main SModelS ingredients are

  * the decomposition of the BSM spectrum into SMS topologies
  * a database of experimental SMS results
  * matching between the decomposition and results database, including the tools to perform various kinds of statistical inference 

as illustrated in the scheme below. 

.. image:: images/smodelsSchemeV3.png
   :width: 60%


Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
     
   ReleaseUpdate  
   Installation
   RunningSModelS
   SModelSTools
   SModelsDocs
   Examples
   CodeDocs
   Cpp
   


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`